Quotas

Michael L. Miller is head of the Nationalism Studies Program at Central European University in Vienna, Austria. He is the author of Rabbis and Revolution: The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation (2011) and other works on Habsburg and Habsburg-Jewish history. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled “Manovill: A Tale of Two Hungarys.”

• Introduction: Antisemitic ArithmeticMichael L. Miller and Judith SzaporPart I: Anti-Jewish Quotas in Central Europe: Historical RootsChapter 1. Quotas and the “Jewish Question” in Imperial AustriaJeremy KingChapter 2. The (Great) Numbers Game: Demographic Anxieties and Quotas in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Romania and the Global Antisemitic ImaginaryAndrei Dan Sorescu and Raul CârstoceaChapter 3. The Prehistory of the Hungarian Numerus Clausus LawMiklós KonrádChapter 4. Jews in the Hungarian Medical Profession, 1782–1947. A Socio-Historical ReportVictor KaradyPart II: Down by Law: The Numerus Clausus in HungaryChapter 5. Mária M. Kovács, the HistorianAndrás KovácsChapter 6. The Hungarian Numerus Clausus: Ideology, Apology and History, 1919-1945Mária M. KovácsChapter 7. From Numerus Clausus to Numerus NullusAndor Ladányi, translated by Judith SzaporPart III: The Politics of Exclusion in Central EuropeChapter 8. Antisemitic Pacts: Student Fraternities and the Exclusion of Jews at Austrian Universities in the Interwar PeriodAndreas HuberChapter 9. From Numerus Clausus Demands to Antisemitic Laws: Student Antisemitism in Romania, 1888-1938Roland ClarkChapter 10. Anti-Jewish Quotas in Interwar Poland: Towards a Reconsideration of the Appeal of Fascism in East Central EuropeGrzegorz KrzywiecChapter 11. “Troublesome Foreigners”: The Protests against Jewish Students at Universities in Vienna, Bratislava and Brno, and the Dispute over Quotas in Czechoslovakia, 1929–1932’Miloslav SzabóPart IV: Jewish Responses, Jewish FatesChapter 12. Next Year in Brno? Brno’s Significance for Hungarian Jews in the Age of the Numerus Clausus and BeyondÁgnes Katalin KelemenChapter 13. “You can become anything, except a pediatrician;” Exploring the gendered impact of Hungary’s Numerus Clausus LawJudith SzaporChapter 14. A Foreign Relations Fiasco? Reactions to the Hungarian Numerus Clausus in Weimar BerlinMichael L. MillerAfterword: The Enduring Legacy of QuotasMichael L. Miller and Judith Szapor